X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=bfcc477d37a983f124cadf58dd182c6018b78cfb;hp=291d220ae03fc57cdb05816e1193effec76334ef;hb=da0a4f8d1f6ddd302ceba028d87c6e009589e503;hpb=3385d7a1bf6afb8508ce334c6231c35cbe2fbae0 diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 291d220..bfcc477 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -144,14 +144,9 @@ Ideas for extra commands General glibc / core programs: chgrp - grep (do it locally using pipe?) dd (?) - ln / ln -s - readlink utime / utimes / futimes / futimens / l.. more mk*temp calls - some sort of alloc/fallocate/posix_fallocate call to create empty space - realpath trunc[ate??] ext2 properties: @@ -177,27 +172,6 @@ Ideas for extra commands pivot_root fts(3) / ftw(3) -Swap space ----------- - -Allow swap space from the guest to be used. Is it a good idea? - -Query guest architecture ------------------------- - -Need a way to query a binary or library file for its architecture. -Using objdump or readelf? -What about non-ELF files (eg. Windows, BSD). - -To do this properly requires some serious logic, eg. to cover Linux -and Windows we'd need objdump and i686-pc-mingw32-objdump, and more to -cover a.out, COFF and 64 bit Windows. Therefore this cannot be done -inside the daemon, and should be done by a separate, external program -similar to virt-inspector. - -Probably we should go all the way and have virt-inspector able to -determine kernel and userspace architectures of guests. - Other initrd-* commands ----------------------- @@ -275,3 +249,19 @@ autogenerated module which creates a Sys::Guestfs handle singleton perl -MSys::Guestfs::One -e 'inspect("guest.img"); cat ("/etc/fstab");' How would editing files work? + +ntfsclone +--------- + +Useful imaging tool: +http://man.linux-ntfs.org/ntfsclone.8.html + +Standard images +--------------- + +Equip guestfish with some standard images that it can load +quickly, eg: + + load ext2 + +Maybe it's better to create these on the fly?